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Sep 25, 2023 · Pope Francis: Child sexual abuse concerns the entire society. Addressing a delegation of the Latin American Research and Training Commission for the Protection of Minors (CEPROME), Pope Francis highlights the progress made by the Church in eradicating the scourge of child sexual abuse, and calls for continued action to safeguard vulnerable people.
Jan 20, 2022 · 20 January 2022. Reuters. Former Pope Benedict XVI failed to act over four child abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich, a German probe into the Catholic Church has alleged. Pope...
Dec 17, 2019 · Tue 17 Dec 2019 10.25 EST. Pope Francis has announced sweeping changes to the way the Roman Catholic church deals with cases of sexual abuse of children, abolishing the rule of pontifical...
Jan 24, 2022 · Mon 24 Jan 2022 13.48 EST. The former pope Benedict XVI has admitted providing false information to a German inquiry into clerical sexual abuse. Benedict, who resigned as the global leader of...
Dec 31, 2022 · By Elisabetta Povoledo. Dec. 31, 2022. The clerical sex abuse scandal broke under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — who would later become Pope Benedict XVI —...
Oct 6, 2021 · The pope conceded that the church had failed to put the needs of victims first in what was considered to be one of his strongest condemnations of child sexual abuse in the Catholic church to...
Jun 1, 2021 · 1 June 2021. Getty Images. Pope Francis has changed the Roman Catholic Church's laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse. It is the biggest overhaul of the criminal code for nearly 40 years....
